#i miss pre s4 era and the fandom was fun

[matchstickdolly]

So long, farewell! 💜 I won't be posting from this account anymore. To close it out, here is a roundup of my Lucifer fan works, as I think that's how most came to find me here.

You will need an AO3 account to read most of my stories; it's relatively easy to sign up if you don't have one. Though I'm gone from here and elsewhere in the Lucifer fandom, I will continue to read comments and attempt to reply to them, so please consider sharing these fics and commenting your thoughts on AO3!

LONG READS (20,000+ words)

A Refraction of Light

314k words. My giant post-S3 canon divergence that spans Earth, Hell, and Heaven. If you didn't like Lucifer's Netflix era (the last three seasons) or wished there were more power couple vibes for Deckerstar, you might enjoy AROL. Though I finished it in 2020, after S4 had aired, I think it works quite well as a S4-S6 fix-it for those who'd like one.

In Sorrow Thou Shalt Bring Forth Children

210k words. The 50 female-focused "blip" years Lucifer's finale conveniently left out, also several post-S6 chapters. Heavy angst surrounding family and spiritual trauma but aims to be cathartic by acknowledging pain. All that said, more humor and Deckerstar than you'd probably expect, given the CW tags.

Reins Series: Try My Reins and My Heart & As Certain Dark Things Are to Be Loved

35k words when read together. Porn with feelings/plot. Fun, sweet kinkiness that should be read in order. Dominant!Lucifer because I struggle to see the Devil otherwise and because Chloe deserves a fucking break in the care of her sex god beau.

In a Similar Vein

21k words. Funny, sweet, and absurd S1 divergence wherein Chloe becomes (very wrongly) convinced that Lucifer is a vampire. Alas, it is missing the last chapter.

Chloe KNOWS

20k words. Funny, sweet, sexy S2 divergence in which Chloe accidentally gets a devil reveal when she stumbles upon an ageless Lucifer in vintage pornography. Oops.

MEDIUM READS (5,000 to 20,000 words)

If the Shoe Fits & In the Family Way

14k words when read together. Alternate post-5B/S6. Feel-good, funny, fluffy, even sexy. Godifer and Mrs. G being good partners, parents, and Improvers of the Universe. If you need a sweet, positive fix-it for the end of Lucifer, these fics might fit the bill.

Rebound to You

12k words. Feel-good, funny, sexy AU where Lucifer is still the Devil, but he and Chloe didn't meet as in canon. Instead, they meet a couple of years later, after Lucifer has naturally gotten a phone and Chloe has divorced Dan and is now resorting to dating apps to meet people. Features a fun gimmick of Tinder-like chat logs (used sparingly, I promise).

Something More & Pump It Up

11k words when read together. These two canon compliant fics won't seem like they go together at first, but I promise they do (thematically). Both are pre-canon and about the subtle ways in which Lucifer and Chloe are an amusingly great match. They just haven't met (yet) to know it! The first story is sweet and about Jed and Chloe's relationship; basically a character study of Chloe as told from Jed's POV. The second is a bit of a sex farce about Lucifer watching Hot Tub High School after settling in L.A., but it's also porn with plot or at least a character study.

Not to Mii

10k words. Lucifer sticks around at the end of S3's "The Last Heartbreak." One thing leads to another, and you get strip Mario Kart. I promise it works.

The Fine Line Between Desire and Fear

10k words. Feel-good and silly post-5A divergence featuring a haunted mansion on Halloween. Almost solely Deckerstar-focused but also imagines a future where Michael is trying to redeem himself and earn Ella's affection; the only problem is that he's afraid...of a lot, actually. The irony!

Sweet and Sour

10k words. A comical Michael/Ella fic based on the 5A trailer. Turned out to be rather in-character for many aspects of Michael, so it holds up, I think.

Now That's What I Call Big Devil Energy! Series: Big Devil Energy & Satan's Got a Heart On

9k words when read together. Funny, sweet chaos. Lucifer being a completely over-the-top Devil in love.

All You Can Play

9k words but really more like 3k if you want the finished part of the fic. (First chapter can stand alone; don’t read past it if you don’t like unfinished work.) Chaotic humor, sex farce. Canon compliant missing scene wherein I will tell you not to hate the player (me) but the game (S3). The reason Lucifer isn't there to protect Chloe at the end of 03x04? He's with Lexy, the judge's soon-to-be ex-wife. This is that story. Featuring Chuck E. Cheese.

Bound by Iniquity

8k words. Dark 5A canon divergence from Maze's POV. Her dirty dealmaking with Michael backfires, big time.

Get Thee Behind Me

7k words. Porn with plot/feelings. Lucifer and Chloe try anal sex for the first time. Feel-good comedy ensues.

Baptized by Desire

7k words. Dark but sweet S3 divergence. Lucifer comes to believe he really is a delusional human while he's in the psychiatric hospital in "God Johnson."

Hells to Betsy

6k words. Answering the question of how Chloe afforded a large three-bedroom townhouse in L.A., especially once Maze moved out. Come on! Detectives are paid well but not that well!

Darkest Before Dawn

5k words. Sweet, funny, sexy wing fic. No wing oil, but there's a barrel of crude oil and Dawn dishwashing liquid. This is not an ad.

SHORT READS (<5,000 words)

The Dotted Line

4k words. Porn without plot. Lucifer is attracted to Chloe in anything, even undies from Target.

Checked Baggage

4k words. Porn with light plot. What if Chloe took up Jana's offer for a threesome, partly out of spite? Bisexual chaos that is still ultimately very much about Deckerstar.

Winging It & Made in His Image

4k words when read together. Both are chaotic sex farces that wax on about the Devil's dick. They must be read in order.

Reefer Gladness Series: Flying High & Baked with Love

3k words when together. Sweet fluff. Established Deckerstar getting high together.

Lunch at the Y

3k words. Porn without plot. Roughly set in a better post-5A world where Lucifer eats Chloe out in a dressing room because of course he would. That's a love language.

Those Who Favor Fire

2k words. Porn without plot. Roughly set in a better post-S3 world where Deckerstar have gotten their HEA and have been together for some ten years or so.

My God's House Has Many Rooms

2k words. S6's "happy" closeout is creepily vague to me. This story explores a horrific what-if.

Raising Hell

1k words. Porn without plot. An ode to the blowjob.

Use My Words Against Me

1k words. All dialogue, pure chaos. Caught up in yet another scandal, closeted Republican Senator Olin Graham asks the Devil for a favor. You'll only appreciate this if you know enough about American politics and aren't a fascist piece of shit. Sorry not sorry.

Earthly Delights on Borrowed Time

666 words. Post-S4 reimagining where Lucifer and Chloe are making things work.

The Perfect Help Meets

666 words. Dark, canon compliant one-shot about Lucifer's angst/depression as he tries to make things work with Eve, all while he's in love with Chloe.

Other Stuff

A softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone — Lucifer meets the comic A Softer World. Inspired by an old post by @casimania that can be found here.

General Fanvids — Deckerstar being painful and/or lovely, plus some Trixie because I love her character.

S6 Critical Fanvids — Just me making sense of S6's plot, which I cannot read as anything other than incredibly dark and anti-choice.

Crack Fanvids — Pure comedy and chaos.

Lucifer Season 6 Time Travel Visualizations — Lucifer S6 uses time travel without clearly laying out how it works. I made two visualizations to help explain the possibilities: one for the loop existing in a single timeline and another for the loop causing or being a part of many/parallel worlds.

Lucifer S6 Wiki — After Lucifer Season 5B and S6, I started digging into the writers’ interviews to understand what the hell had gone wrong. You'll find their answers to a lot of common S6 questions here. They’re real, er, interesting Hollywood folk, to say the least.

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2018 fic roundup

tagged by @catty-words!

Total 2018 Word Count: 91,069 Total 2018 Hits: 3749 Other 2018 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 333, Comment Threads: 46, Bookmarks: 18, Subscriptions: 5

Total 2017 Word Count: 1,023 Total 2017 Hits: 29 Other 2017 AO3 Stats: Kudos: 2, Comment Threads: 1, Bookmarks: 2, Subscriptions: 0

links and titles to 2018 works 

just a few ways to say it’s ok [1,719] - rebecca + heather scene based on the 3x08 promo of rebecca in a stanford shirt that got jossed literally hours after i posted it.

white josh’s boyfriend needs assistance (possibly medical) [1,687] - 3x06 missing scene where the gurl group gives darryl an ice bath and whijo comes to pick him up and join the scolding.

a crash course in good intentions [1,251] - 2x13 nathaniel realizes that bringing silas bunch to rebecca’s wedding, while well meant, might not have been the best thing for her.

to sweet beginnings and (bitter) endings [2,225] - a summer camp era rebecca/josh fic

temperature control [2,689] - 3x07 morning after fluff, featuring nathaniel’s complicated shower.

every body is a ledger [1,040] - part i of soulmark au, featuring small vignettes of rebecca’s friends and love interests and the place she marks in their lives and how they react to it.

the space your name makes [8,819] - part ii of soulmark au featuring rebecca, that started off as a series of vignettes about the people in her life and ballooned to cover all major narrative events in the series pre-3x13.

treacherous [1,632] - s2 rebecca tries to rationalize her unwanted attraction to nathaniel

keeping it light [1,902] - eight months filler. r/n talk discuss rebecca’s dye jobs

five times nathaniel got stuck holding the baby [5,115] - nathaniel unwittingly bonds with darryl’s daughter from sheer proximity. written pre-s4 so i had to come up with a nickname.

made mistakes and amends and brief moments of magic [9,318] - eight months filler, rebecca avoids defining her deepening relationship with nathaniel and goes to therapy.

now we’re on the trolley [15,180] - valencia conscripts her social circle into throwing a speakeasy and everyone just has a good time and gets wasted. aka the everyone wants to be friends au. also a low-key parks & recreation crossover. pre-s4 but presumes half a season’s character development.

my breathing is light and my head is filled silly [12,711] - a collection of r/n prompt fills and miscellaneous oneshots

turns, both solo and ensemble [5,133] - gen and other ceg prompt fills go here

treat me like a comma and i’ll take you to a new phrase [20,648] - pre-canon au, law school era!r/n meet at yale under slightly extenuating circumstances. much talking (and alternate activities) ensues. my newest fic, posted just under the wire for 2018, and officially the longest thing i have posted for this fandom. previously known as ‘a better fate than wisdom’ in my wip folder.

Favorite Fic: the space your name makes. i feel like i beat this horse to death, but i’m still very satisfied with how the concept came through and while it did expand more than i anticipated, at the end of the day it really feels like the fic i set out to write.

Hardest Fic: now we’re on the trolley for all of the character juggling, the fact that it started as a random collection of scenes that needed to be welded together, and because the whole time i was writing it i knew it would be completely niche fic in an already niche fandom, which really made me question whether it was worth the effort i was putting into it (it was and i’m fond of it, but it did hurt). treat me like a comma came close, not just for the deadline i gave myself and having to deal with irl issues that really cut into my writing time, but also for trying to figure out how law school!rethaniel would actually interact.

Do you plan to take prompts in 2019? planning on it! i still have a few chilling in my inbox that i want to clear out before i ask for more, and i’m kind of interested in putting together my own prompt list at some point in the future.

What was the best thing about 2018? falling into a fandom and writing regularly again was a really pleasant surprise, especially writing voices and dynamics that are just completely out of my comfort zone. i have also never been this productive in a single year, nor am i used to writing stories that go much beyond 5,000 words, which has been a weird sea change, but not unwelcome. i’ve met some really kind people and read a lot of really interesting, thoughtful fic and meta. 

What was the worst thing about 2018? mostly small fandom problems, from coming to terms with the fact that feedback is different to realizing that the more unpleasant parts of the fandom experience can become even more prominent very quickly, before i built my chill bubble.

Any last thoughts for 2018? it’s been turbulent, that’s for sure. sadness that ceg will be ending, but i’m also curious to see how the finished series will affect how we look at these characters and themes. 

also thank you to everyone who has ever read or commented on my fic or my silly headcanons - that’s meant a lot.

Goals for 2019? 

learn to trust my choices and stand by them. i’ve definitely held myself back from writing dialogue that in retrospect would have worked very well, but i was scared of for whatever reason.

if i have a feeling a fic is gonna be long, i need to just plan for it and stop kidding myself.

once ceg is over and the final lessons have been placed, assess the canon and settle in to write a long-ass magical realism au.

tagging @virdant , @newsbypostcard (if you’re still up for these), @redbelles,